Sympiesis gordius (Walker, 1839)

Mistletoe, Insects Associated With The European, Album, Viscum, Ukraine, In Western Part Of, Zamoroka, A Pilot Study A. M., Shparyk, V. Yu., Dovhaniuk, I. Ya. & Varga, O. O., 2023, Insects Associated with the European Mistletoe (Viscum album) in Western Ukraine: a Pilot Study, Zoodiversity 57 (5), pp. 433-450 : 438-439

Sympiesis gordius (Walker, 1839)

Reared material. Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Ivano-Frankivsk, 16.02.2014, 2 specimens, ex larva (A. Zamoroka) ( PUIF) .

Biology. Larvae are ectoparasitoids of leafrollers larvae ( Lepidoptera ) ( Yefremova, 1997). It is likely that S. s gordius parasitises C. woodiana larvae, the V. album monophagous specialist. The association of S. gordius with insect communities on V. album is described for the first time.

Eupelmidae

Eupelmus pini Taylor, 1927

R e a r e d m a t e r i a l. Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Ivano-Frankivsk, 16.02.2014, 1 specimen, ex larva

(A. Zamoroka) (PUIF).

B i o l o g y. Eupelmus pini is a primary parasitoid on wide range of xylophagous Coleoptera larvae (e. g., Scolitinae, Curculionidae , Cerambycidae ) ( Fusu, 2009; Gibson & Fusu, 2016). It is also suggested as hyperparasitoid through Braconidae ( Gibson & Fusu, 2016) . The association of E. pini with insect communities on V. album was previously unknown.